Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov

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Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov'A terrifying and unhappy book' The Guardian This astounding self portrait covering the whole of Shostakovich's life (1906 1975) was prepared in collaboration with the distinguished Soviet musicologist Solomon Volkov. With the composer's consent, the manuscript was smuggled out of Soviet Russia but Shostakovich, fearing reprisals, stipulated that the book should not appear until after his death. Ever since its publication in 1979 it has been the

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